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Astonishing

By K.C. Johnson

Astonishing news from the Duke public relations office: Group of 88 member?and later apologist?Cathy Davidson has been nominated to the 26-member the National Council of Humanities, which advises the NEH. The position requires Senate confirmation; I would hope that at least one senator would ask Davidson about her record in the lacrosse case?both her rush to judgment in spring 2006 and her willful dissembling about her actions in January 2007. To review Davidson?s record: On April 6, 2006?based solely on information about the case supplied by the media and rogue prosecutor Mike Nifong?she and 87 colleagues signed the ?Group of 88? statement. The guilt-presuming document publicly affirmed that something ?happened? to (false) accuser Crystal Mangum...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on December 08, 2010 (boomark / email).